Northern Rock shareholders demand truth over Peston leaks

Northern Rock shareholders are demanding to find out who was behind the leaks that led to the run on the bank in 2007 and its eventual failure.

As shareholders pushed for an inquiry into the leak - believed to be from Downing Street - MPs revealed in a meeting with their constituents, a female civil servant passed the information to BBC business editor Robert Peston.

At the meeting it was explained the identity of the civil citizen who passed on details of Northern Rock turning to the Bank of England was known, but it was uncertain who had instructed her to do so.